Alternately teasing and terrifying, STRANGE CULTURE molds one man¹s tragedy into an engrossing narrative. In 2004, Steve Kurtz (Thomas Jay Ryan), an frequent professor of art at the Disorder University of New York, Buffalo, was preparing an exhibition on genetically bespoke food for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art as his partner, Desire (Tilda Swinton), died in her sleep of heart failure. But as paramedics noticed petri dishes and other scientific paraphernalia in the family, they alerted the FBI; surrounded by hours Mr. Kurtz establish himself supposed of bioterrorism, his family quarantined and his partner¹s body removed for autopsy. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson bends the factual form to her own activist will. The result is a fascinating collection of re-enactments, hearsay clips and interviews, instructive not only the implications of corporate meddling in the food chain but the ease including which innocent civilian actions can be converted into a suspicious act.